Word: sectarianism
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...George A. Buttrick, Preacher to the University, had enforced (with President Pusey's implicit support) a standing order barring Jewish marriages in Memorial Church. This led to widespread and often heated debate over the nature of Memorial Church and over the question of whether Harvard was a sectarian or secular university...
...Wright designed at least four other sectarian churches in recent years: the Unitarian Meeting House at Madison, Wis., a Congregational church at Redding, Calif., Beth Sholom Synagogue at Elkins Park, Pa., and a Christian Science church for Bolinas, Calif...
...which may never come again to enlighten the President, the Congress, the States, the bench, the bar, the school authorities, the private educators and the country as a whole, as to what the First Amendment permits or prohibits in the form of direct financial payments of public funds to sectarian schools or to their pupils." Last week the Supreme Court refused to review the Vermont decision; the net effect, politically, was a blow at the use of public funds for parochial schools...
Concentrating on such dry fare as course papers, it seems to me, means abandoning a premise that the late Dan Frost operated on when he started the Journal: that most courses and tutorials at Harvard present stylized, narrow, and sectarian approaches to their material, and that a publication like the Journal ought to give students a chance to transcend the limitations of course writing. What the capable papers in the May issue--with the possible exception of Campbell's--badly lack is freshness, the freshness that comes when people stop thinking about external requirements and write about things they...
Current is a little review of Catholicism and contemporary culture put out by the Harvard-Radcliffe Catholic Club. The appeal of its March issue is neither sectarian nor entirely universal, and indeed the most puzzling question its table of contents raises is that of self-definition. It seems to me that the editors of Current have not thought out what they are trying to represent or what public they are trying to reach; the result of their confusion is an eclectic scattering of pieces with little relation to one another and not much interest for the Harvard community...